Pretty (fast) car for a girl

Wayne Austen, is the owner of Austen's Body Shop just across Fourth Street from the fairgrounds. Just retired from teaching auto body at Clackamas Community College, he's also a proud uncle, and did the paint job on his niece's dragster, shown below.

Junior dragsters are for kids from 8-18, but they're not small on speed. The $5,000 Cheetah alcohol engine sends niece Kayla Nail down 1/8-mile tracks in 7.9 seconds at a top speed of about 85 mph.
















A future junior drag racer dreams of burning rubber.


















Wayne poses with his work.